Author : Ethel Johnston Phelps
Publisher : Feminist Press at CUNY
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 38,21 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780912670508
A collection of traditional tales from Norway, England, China, and many other countries.
Author : Ethel Johnston Phelps
Publisher : The Feminist Press at CUNY
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 42,3 MB
Release : 2016-06-20
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 1558619305
The first volume in this beautifully illustrated anthology features traditional tales of heroic women from Japan to Scotland and beyond. Long before Suzanne Collins created Katniss Everdeen and Octavia Butler wrote Parable of the Sower, there were many traditional folktales full of adventure, intrigue, and intrepid female characters. Feminist Folktales from Around the World collects these forgotten classics and presents them with original artwork by designer and illustrator Suki Boynton. Volume one in the series, Tatterhood features an introduction by Gayle Forman, the New York Times bestselling author of If I Stay. These twelves tales from Japan, Norway, Scotland, Sudan, and more, celebrate the cunning, hard work, and physical strength of their heroines. In these pages, a family of three women teaches a burly man how to wrestle, a girl battles a fearsome bear, and a young mother rescues her village from an elephant's stomach.
Author : Margrete Lamond
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 50,6 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 186448960X
A collection of Norwegian folk tales, notable for their gutsy heroines, tongue-in-cheek humour and folksy idiom.
Author : Ethel Johnston Phelps
Publisher : The Feminist Press at CUNY
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 31,95 MB
Release : 2016-09-19
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 155861947X
In this second volume of folktales, a Punjabi woman outwits seven ruthless thieves, an Incan girl restores harmony to the empire, and a mischievous Norwegian lass thwarts her entitled landowner. Spanning centuries and continents, Kamala recalls how the dazzling courage, cleverness, and power of women have always held our world together.
Author : Ethel Johnston Phelps
Publisher : Feminist Press at CUNY
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 12,82 MB
Release : 2017-09-18
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 1936932059
The fourth volume in this beautifully illustrated anthology features traditional tales of heroic women from Russia to South Africa and beyond. Long before Suzanne Collins created Katniss Everdeen and Octavia Butler wrote Parable of the Sower, there were many traditional folktales full of adventure, intrigue, and intrepid female characters. Feminist Folktales from Around the World collects these forgotten classics and presents them with original artwork by designer and illustrator Suki Boynton. Volume four in the series, The Hunter Maiden features an introduction by Renee Watson, the New York Times bestselling author of Piecing Me Together. In these eleven adventures, a diverse cast of female protagonists lend their daring and determination to everything from battling evil wizards in Russia to outsmarting tricky demons in South Africa. In the title story, a young member of the Zuni Native American tribe proves her resourcefulness as she confronts cultural double standards and malicious winter spirits.
Author : Jane Yolen
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 19,90 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780152020477
A collection of thirteen traditional tales from various parts of the world, with the main character of each being a fearless, strong, heroic, and resourceful woman.
Author : Ruth Nickle
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 13,38 MB
Release : 2018-04-04
Category :
ISBN : 9781986727877
Whatever happened to "happily ever after"? Heroes search for happiness, villains plot revenge, and nothing is as easy as it once seemed. Gretel suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder, an orphan girl questions Rumpelstiltskin's legacy, a monster cat searches for a child to eat, and the pied piper realizes stealing a hundred and thirty children may not have been his smartest idea. Fairy tales have endured for centuries even though-or perhaps because-their conclusions are often more unsettling than satisfying. In Unspun, eleven storytellers come together to challenge and explore a few of those classic tales. Unexpected twists are sure to provoke both thought and laughter. Gorgeous illustrations by Ruth Nickle accompany each piece. Stories in the Anthology: "Heart of a Thief" by Chris Cutler (Jack and the Beanstalk) "Rumpelstiltskin's Daughter" by Ruth Nickle (Rumpelstiltskin) "Tsar Vislav, Tsarina Vislav, and the Firebird" by Sarah Chow (Tsarevitch Ivan, the Firebird, and the Gray Wolf) "Tatterhood and the Prince's Hand" by Katherine Cowley (Tatterhood) "The Little Mermaid" by PJ Switzer (The Little Mermaid) "Ásthildur and the Yule Cat" by Sarah Blake Johnson (The Yule Cat) "Perfectly Real" by Robin Prehn (The Princess and the Pea) "The Pied Piper's Revenge" by Scott Cowley (The Pied Piper) "Ethical Will" by Kaki Olsen (The Nutcracker) "Breadcrumbs" by Jeanna Mason Stay (Hansel and Gretel) "Spring's Revenge" by Anika Arrington (Snow White)
Author : Lauren Mills
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 43,80 MB
Release : 2009-11-29
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0316092398
Ridiculed by all but her animal friends, little wingless Fia spends her days on the earth rather than in the sky. But when the boy fairy Kip invites her to attend the May Dance, she saves the day when a wicked troll arrives seeking a late-night snack of fairy wings. Full color.
Author : Martin Shaw
Publisher : Chelsea Green Publishing
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 45,10 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1603589503
"Myth is our wild way of telling the truth, of sharing stories that have our living earth speaking through them. There is an old insistence that we each have a twin we know nothing about. A wild, curious twin that was thrown out the window the night we were born, taking much of our energy with them. This story is a quest to find and court our wild twin, for they have something important to tell us. If there was something we were here to do in our few, brief years, we can be sure that the wild twin is holding the key. In Courting the Wild Twin, Martin Shaw, an accomplished storyteller and scholar of myth and oral tradition, explores two ancient myths concerned with the wild twin and shares how vital they are to our ability to confront challenges with purpose, courage and creativity. Myths are our secret weapon. They have a radical agency of beauty in our age of amnesia, an agency far beyond concept and polemic"--
Author : Birgit Berggrensson
Publisher : Universal-Publishers
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 19,10 MB
Release : 2022-01-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1627343644
The topic of the book is the focus on rights, which has spread like wildfire above all in the western part of the world since the Second World War and the impact this way of thinking has had on how we see our fellow human beings. The author sees rights focused thinking and neighborly love as opposites and does not think that the two are compatible. They are mutually exclusive. In other words a different way of thinking is called for, and this applies to all the things that we human beings feel we are entitled to and claim, starting with The Declaration of Human Rights and continuing to the right to a roof over one’s head; throughout the chapters of the book the author argues that we human beings do not have any rights at all, and how we instead have to take a closer look at the parts of rights focused thinking that might be justified. What is the interface of human rights and compassion? The various topics are introduced to the reader by a fairytale or a story, which is meant to make the reader reflect on the problem before meeting the author’s point of view the same way Jesus made his followers think about a problem by means of parables. What is a human right? How can we tell whether a proposed human right is really one? How do we establish the content of particular human rights and how do we prevent such rights from harming human relations? These are questions that the author tries to answer.
